Football World Cup 1990 / Soviet Union

This article covers the Soviet national football team at the 1990 World Cup .

qualification

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Soviet Union	11: 4	11
2	Austria	9: 9	9
3	Turkey	12:10	7th
4th	GDR	9:13	7th
5	Iceland	6:11	6th

Iceland	-	Soviet Union	1: 1
Soviet Union	-	Austria	2-0
Soviet Union	-	GDR	3-0
Turkey	-	Soviet Union	0: 1
Soviet Union	-	Iceland	1: 1
Austria	-	Soviet Union	0-0
GDR	-	Soviet Union	2: 1
Soviet Union	-	Turkey	2-0

Soviet contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Rinat Dassayev	Sevilla FC	07/13/1957	1	0	0	0
16	Viktor Chanov	Dynamo Kiev	07/21/1959	0	0	0	0
22nd	Alexander Uvarov	Dynamo Moscow	01/13/1960	2	0	0	0
Defender
3	Wagis Chidijatullin	Toulouse FC	03/03/1959	3	0	1	0
4th	Oleh Kuznetsov	Dynamo Kiev	March 22, 1963	3	0	0	0
6th	Vasily Raz	Dynamo Kiev	03/25/1961	1	0	0	0
13	Achrik Zweiba	Dynamo Kiev	09/10/1966	0	0	0	0
17th	Andrei Syhmantowitsch	Dinamo Minsk	12/02/1962	2	1	1	0
19th	Sergei Fokin	CSKA Moscow	07/26/1961	0	0	0	0
20th	Sergei Gorlukovich	Borussia Dortmund	11/18/1961	3	0	0	0
midfield player
2	Volodymyr Bessonov	Dynamo Kiev	05.03.1958	2	0	0	1
5	Anatoly Demyanenko	Dynamo Kiev	02/19/1959	1	0	0	0
7th	Syarhej Alejnikau	Juventus Turin	11/07/1961	3	0	0	0
8th	Hennadij Lytovchenko	Dynamo Kiev	09/11/1963	3	0	0	0
9	Oleksandr Savarov	Juventus Turin	04/20/1961	3	1	0	0
11	Igor Dobrowolski	Dynamo Moscow	08/27/1967	3	1	0	0
15th	Ivan Yaremchuk	Dynamo Kiev	March 19, 1962	2	0	0	0
18th	Igor Shalimov	Spartak Moscow	02/02/1969	2	0	0	0
21st	Valery Broochin	CSKA Moscow	10/09/1962	0	0	0	0
striker
10	Oleg Protasov	Dynamo Kiev	02/04/1964	3	1	1	0
12	Alexander Borodyuk	FC Schalke 04	11/30/1962	1	0	0	0
14th	Volodymyr Lyutyj	FC Schalke 04	04/20/1962	1	0	0	0
Trainer
	Valery Lobanovsky		01/06/1939

Soviet team games

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Cameroon	3: 5	4th
2	Romania	4: 3	3
3	Argentina	3: 2	3
4th	Soviet Union	4: 4	2

• Soviet Union - Romania 0: 2 (0: 1)

Stadium: Stadio San Nicola ( Bari )

Spectators: 42,907

Referee: Cardellino ( Uruguay )

Goals: 0: 1 Lăcătuș (42nd), 0: 2 Lăcătuș (57th) 11m

• Argentina - Soviet Union 2: 0 (1: 0)

Stadium: Stadio San Paolo ( Naples )

Spectators: 55,759

Referee: Fredriksson ( Sweden )

Goals: 1-0 Troglio (27th), 2-0 Burruchaga (79th)

• Cameroon - Soviet Union 0: 4 (0: 2)

Stadium: Stadio San Nicola ( Bari )

Spectators: 37,307

Referee: Ramiz Wright ( Brazil )

Goals: 0: 1 Protasov (20th), 0: 2 Syhmantowitsch (29th), 0: 3 Sawarow (55th), 0: 4 Dobrowolski (63rd)

World champions Argentina met Cameroon in the opening game of the tournament in Group B and suffered a sensational 1-0 defeat. The victory of the black Africans was not their only trick in this group, because the Romanians also had to bow to this opponent with 1: 2. Cameroon could even afford to lose the last game against the Soviets 4-0 without losing the group's leading position. This victory was no longer of any use to the Soviet Union, as the two 2-0 defeats against runners-up Romania and Argentina had already meant an early end.